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  1. It doesn't move, but the camera is, so nah. on NASA Feed 'Goes Down As Horseshoe UFO Appears On ISS Live Cam' (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The blob stays in the same part of the frame even though the camera is on the station travelling around a Earth at a very high speed. The only thing changing is the position of the sun relative to the cameras field of view through the window, which changes the lighting on the blob. So some astronaut flicked a booger onto the window glass, whoopee! i.e. Meh, space boogers, again.

  2. But is the space between finger and app secure? on Viber Update Brings End-To-End Encryption and Hidden Chats (gsmarena.com) · · Score: 1

    Will all of these secure apps just cause the rest of the system to be targeted so that all of my interactions with my devices are tapped into directly thereby making encryption pointless?

  3. If you like spatial audio on YouTube Introduces Live 360 Video Streaming and Spatial Audio (googleblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Check out Quiet American. http://www.quietamerican.org/i...

  4. Re:Give me a chance on Viable Mammal Embryos In Space Demonstrated by Chinese Experiment (chinadaily.com.cn) · · Score: 0

    Yeah, but can you deal with this when it happens in zero g? http://cdn2.mommyish.com/wp-co...

  5. Or to sum it all up in a few seconds, on Six-Hour Meeting Friday Fails to End Oracle/Google Lawsuit (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1
  6. Because real religious abuse children? on Worshipping the Flying Spaghetti Monster Isn't a Real Religion, Court Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Their bodies and their minds.

  7. But is drone droning against the law? on Drone-Shooting is Now a Federal Crime, FAA Confirms (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the easiest way to destroy a big expensive drone is with a small cheap one, and who is going to be able to prove is was not an accident? On the right day you could even take one out with a child's kite.

  8. Recall speed limits true input speed. on Slashdot Asks: What's Your View On Speed Reading? · · Score: 1

    The nature of your brain circuits makes recall the inverse of the original input so you can't learn at any greater speed (or volume) than you can recall information. This basically proves that beyond a certain point that "speed reading" is impossible. However one can prime the brain with information at a high rate so that when related but more structured input is received it is better able to retain it. In other words speed reading could improve recall if you then read the material at a normal rate the next day after a good sleep.

  9. I think I found an FBI safe house. on FBI May Be Hoarding a Firefox Zero-Day (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1
  10. Fail and Trump may destroy Facebook, AIFILAW on Facebook Employees Ask Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try To Stop a Donald Trump Presidency (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Start a fight that big and that blatant and you must expect the same treatment if you do not win. Even if you do win it is a hollow victory because all you have proven is that democracy in the USA is an illusion that can be manipulated. So what exactly are you fighting for?

  11. Re:Isn't Visual Basic non-deterministic enough? on DARPA's Latest Chip Is Designed To Be Bad At Arithmetic (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    OMG! They thought I was joking.

  12. Does this put ALL primates at risk? on Zika Virus Officially Causes Rare Microcephaly Birth Defects, CDC Says (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody seems to have thought about this, but doesn't this new version of Zika mean the eventual extinction of all wild primate populations?

  13. Isn't Visual Basic non-deterministic enough? on DARPA's Latest Chip Is Designed To Be Bad At Arithmetic (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why spend all that money on research when Microsoft already had the perfect product for their needs.

  14. Re:On the subject of calendars on Google Calendar Celebrates 10th Birthday With New Goals Feature (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Is this what you need?
    https://owncloud.org/
    https://doc.owncloud.org/serve...

    Get up and running in a few clicks.
    https://www.turnkeylinux.org/o...

  15. Considered by who? Fools. The science was never that simple.

  16. Margarine vs Butter, that is all this is about. on Replacing Butter With Vegetable Oils Doesn't Decrease Risk of Heart Disease, Says Study (medicalxpress.com) · · Score: 2

    Margarine was never considered healthy by some people because they already understood that the state of saturation is a gross simplification of the issue when structure, chain length and conformation have such a large influence on the specific bioactivity of each of the huge number of molecules that constitute lipids, not to mention the impact of the volume ratios of the types consumed. If you didn't already know this you should stop getting your knowledge from the fools in the media and actually study some science.

  17. Re:That is 0.1 % of the people he'd like to fire. on Amazon Customers Sign Letter To Jeff Bezos To Dump Donald Trump (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    What has that got to do with my point, the fact that people don't get "scale"? X means nothing unless it is in the context of Y and in this case Y is far far larger so X is trivial. Doooo yooouu uuuundeeeeerrrrr staaaaand meeeeee noooooow?

  18. Re:That is 0.1 % of the people he'd like to fire. on Amazon Customers Sign Letter To Jeff Bezos To Dump Donald Trump (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    If you boot out all your neo-slaves you will see wage inflation and the dollars you do take home will buy less. That is maths too, nothing to do with politics or "rights".

  19. Re:That is 0.1 % of the people he'd like to fire. on Amazon Customers Sign Letter To Jeff Bezos To Dump Donald Trump (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    What has that got to do with the maths, you know, in my comment?

  20. That is 0.1 % of the people he'd like to fire. on Amazon Customers Sign Letter To Jeff Bezos To Dump Donald Trump (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    There are over 11,000,000 people who's lives are at risk of being totally disrupted by Trump's plans, therefore the UltraViolet numbers are trivial. In fact the only remarkable thing is how small the numbers are given the consequences for some many people. Looks like somebody should have studies more Math and less liberal arts.

  21. Re:Studies in the blind spots of academia on Life Expectancy Study: It's Not Just What You Make, It's Where You Live (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Not a new idea, from Hippocrates approximately 2400 years ago, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

  22. Re:About time on SpaceX Delivers World's First Inflatable Room For Astronauts (go.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sure you did, the idea is almost 60 years old. http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRA...

  23. Tor exit nodes could use white lists. on Seattle Police Raid Tor-Using Privacy Activists (thestranger.com) · · Score: 1

    Is the problem with Tor that the exit node can be used to interact with any web site and that is the problem, the "any" part? Because there could be a Tor like network that only allowed for connection to a very large list of white-listed sites. Given the nodes are all over the world no single government could control the white-list contents therefore genuine users can be provided with a secure channel for legitimate activities without compromising their privacy while drastically limiting the amount of abuse possible using the network. Good and Bad are abstraction that only gain meaning from a consensus, so why not use one to protect the integrity of Tor?

  24. Stalin proved that starvation was more effective. on G-7 Leaders At Hiroshima To Urge More Visits to Nuclear Bombsites (voanews.com) · · Score: 2

    Does it matter how you kill people, or how efficiently, surely it is the number of people killed that is most relevant? Ideology killed far more people than technology ever did. Total dead in WWII, about 70 million, number of people killed by communism in the following decades, about 60 million.

  25. Re:Sexism and Racism on VR Tested by NFL To Confront Sexism and Racism (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly, you have a right to enter the competition, but you don't have the right to expect the prize to be shared.